SIGMETRICS 1997: Seattle, Washington, USA

Keynote Address

• Hans-Werner Braun: Architecture and Performance of Large Internets, Based on Terrestrial and Satellite Infrastructure (Abstract). 1 BibTeX

Network Measurement and Modeling

• Hari Balakrishnan, Mark Stemm, Srinivasan Seshan, Randy H. Katz: Analyzing Stability in Wide-Area Network Performance. 2-12 BibTeX
• Carlos Maltzahn, Kathy J. Richardson, Dirk Grunwald: Performance Issues of Enterprise Level Web Proxies. 13-23 BibTeX
• Daniel P. Heyman, T. V. Lakshman, Arnold L. Neidhardt: A New Method for Analysing Feedback-Based Protocols with Applications to Engineering Web Traffic over the Internet. 24-38 BibTeX

Network Resource Management

• Qingming Ma, K. K. Ramakrishnan: Queue Management for Explicit Rate Based Congestion Control. 39-51 BibTeX
• Teunis J. Ott, Neil Aggarwal: TCP over ATM: ABR or UBR? 52-63 BibTeX
• Sneha Kumar Kasera, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley: Scalable Reliable Multicast Using Multiple Multicast Groups. 64-74 BibTeX

Parallel Computer Systems

• Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Alan L. Cox: Performance Debugging Shared Memory Parallel Programs Using Run-Time Dependence Analysis. 75-87 BibTeX
• Martin C. Herbordt, Owais Kidwai, Charles C. Weems: Preprototyping SIMD Coprocessors Using Virtual Machine Emulation and Trace Compilation. 88-99 BibTeX

Hot Topic Session: Network Support for Video

Memory Management

• Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson: Informed Multi-Process Prefetching and Caching. 100-114 BibTeX
• Gideon Glass, Pei Cao: Adaptive Page Replacement Based on Memory Reference Behavior. 115-126 BibTeX
• Geoffrey M. Voelker, Hervé A. Jamrozik, Mary K. Vernon, Henry M. Levy, Edward D. Lazowska: Managing Server Load in Global Memory Systems. 127-138 BibTeX

Modeling

• Michael E. Woodward: Size-Limited Batch Movement in Product-Form Closed Discrete-Time Queueing Networks. 139-146 BibTeX
• Leana Golubchik, John C. S. Lui: Bounding of Performance Measures for a Threshold-based Queueing System with Hysteresis. 147-157 BibTeX
• John P. Lehoczky: Using Real-Time Queueing Theory to Control Lateness in Real-Time Systems. 158-168 BibTeX

Network Modeling

• Erich M. Nahum, David J. Yates, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley: Cache Behavior of Network Protocols. 169-180 BibTeX
• Edward W. Knightly: Second Moment Resource Allocation in Multi-Service Networks. 181-191 BibTeX
• Marwan Krunz, Satish K. Tripathi: On the Characterization of VBR MPEG Streams. 192-202 BibTeX

Benchmarking

• Keith A. Smith, Margo I. Seltzer: File System Aging - Increasing the Relevance of File System Benchmarks. 203-213 BibTeX
• Aaron B. Brown, Margo I. Seltzer: Operating System Benchmarking in the Wake of Lmbench: A Case Study of the Performance of NetBSD on Intel x86 Architecture. 214-224 BibTeX

Work in Progress

Computing and Switching Platforms

• Anurag Acharya, Guy Edjlali, Joel H. Saltz: The Utility of Exploiting Idle Workstations for Parallel Computation. 225-236 BibTeX
• Xiaohan Qin, Jean-Loup Baer: A Performance Evaluation of Cluster-Based Architectures. 237-247 BibTeX
• Tzi-cker Chiueh, Srinidhi Varadarajan: Design and Evaluation of a DRAM-based Shared Memory ATM Switch. 248-259 BibTeX

Storage Systems

• Junehwa Song, Asit Dan, Dinkar Sitaram: Efficient Retrieval of Composite Multimedia Objects in the JINSIL Distributed System. 260-271 BibTeX
• Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W. Chang, Eugene M. Feinberg, Howard Gobioff, Chen Lee, Berend Ozceri, Erik Riedel, David Rochberg, Jim Zelenka: File Server Scaling with Network-Attached Secure Disks. 272-284 BibTeX
• Athanassios Tsiolis, Mary K. Vernon: Group-Guaranteed Channel Capacity in Multimedia Storage Servers. 285-297 BibTeX